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 1 I   |         drums and flutes, - and songs in a tongue no longer spoken;
 2 II  |         manuscript, "are Vulgar Songs. If they are to be spoken
 3 II  |   desired, I can write down the songs of the washermen, and the
 4 II  |       of the washermen, and the songs which are sung in this street
 5 II  |       me a collection of Vulgar Songs.~ ~   By "vulgar" Manyemon
 6 II  |        written down forty-seven songs; and with his help I made
 7 II  |        exceptions which popular songs offer to this rule being
 8 II  |       vowel sounds. Most of the songs~{p. 33}~which Manyemon had
 9 II  |            The theme of all the songs was love, as indeed it is
10 II  |      des rues et des bois; even songs about celebrated places
11 II  | dramatic suggestiveness.~II~The songs really form three distinct
12 II  |        was it that these little songs, composed in different generations
13 II  |      Manyemon asks which of the songs I like best; and I turn
14 III |  diverted themselves by singing songs and by playing ken with
15 III |       and sang Japanese~{p. 57}~songs. I saw maidens "made by
16 VIII|       of making a collection of songs containing Buddhist expressions
17 VIII| bewildering variety of Japanese songs - a variety of which the
18 VIII|    mentioned the Utai, dramatic songs, mostly composed by high
19 VIII|       Buddhism; - the Naga-uta, songs often of extraordinary length; -
20 VIII|    mainly to dodoitsu, - little songs of twenty-six syllables
21 VIII|   former birth!~p. 191}~   Many songs of this class refer to the
22 VIII|       of exotic interest to the songs expressing belief in preëxistence
23 VIII|     expression in these popular songs. For the common people the